Already, I need a second script that will walk through a column restoring the space before to that used by assigned paragraph styles. This is an easy fall-out from the previous script. Instead of the spreadText() function, I have an unSpreadText() function that looks like this:
function unSpreadText(theText) { for (var j = theText.paragraphs.length - 1; j > 0; j--) { theText.paragraphs[j].spaceBefore = theText.paragraphs[j].appliedParagraphStyle.spaceBefore; } }